Witnessing the bombing outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil: 36.235613, 43.989129

Sofia Barbarani describes witnessing the deadly car bombing outside the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq on 17 April, 2015. According to her, many expatriates enjoying the relative safety of the semiautonomous region started to take more security precautions after the Islamic State bombing killed three people in the city's international Ainkawa district. Click here for the full story